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Nagoya protocol

To what extent the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol is progressing within the countries, being parties or not? Here are few updates: Malaysian player:The bill on ABS is at the Attorney’s General Office for last review, according to an article…

As soon as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been created and the Nagoya Protocol was under discussion, parallel discussions were and still are ongoing on how patent policies can reflect the Objectives of the CBD. The World Intellectual…

Being quite active in trying to gather as much information as possible on the regulations that are developed and / or under development with regards to Access and Benefit Sharing and the Nagoya Protocol implementation I come across interesting articles…

As often mentioned in my posts related to ABS, things are moving but rather slowly. However, I wanted to share with you the last CBD Magazine that gives an overview of actions, partnerships taken to support the Nagoya Protocol Implementation.…

Even if we know that the implementation of ABS practices are not easy due to various factors such as: National regulation under development, which uncertainties in the current daily processes; Real implementation at the national level: how does the regulation…

When looking into different EU members, we can see that there are different approaches. For example, France developed a detailed legal framework based on the EU regulation but redefining some of the aspects with regards to access to the Genetic…

We are expecting some movement regarding the different national legislation, regulations which would reflect the Nagoya Protocol. See in this newsletter some information on the French, the Brazilian and the Philippines ABS regulations. We continue to strongly think that the…

France: The French National Assembly voted on March 18th the new law with regards to biodiversity and reflecting the Nagoya Protocol implementation in France. This law ratifies the creations of the new French Agency for Biodiversity (AFB). This agency will…

A short post to let you know the Philippines are strongly studying how they would implement the Nagoya Protocol. (…)Paje said the protocol could be the country’s shield against biopiracy, or the commercial exploitation or monopolization of biological or genetic…

End of January, the ABS Capacity Development Initiative organised its 4th Business Dialogue. The aim of this conference is to create an environment where regulators and private sectors can share their views with regards to the implementation of the Nagoya…